1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the exemption of state-owned real property from forced

 1-3     sale.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 43, Property Code, is amended by adding

 1-6     Section 43.002 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 43.002.  EXEMPT PROPERTY.  The real property of the

 1-8     state, including the real property held in the name of state

 1-9     agencies and funds, and the real property of a political

1-10     subdivision of the state are exempt from attachment, execution, and

1-11     forced sale.  A judgment lien or abstract of judgment may not be

1-12     filed or perfected against the state, a unit of state government,

1-13     or a political subdivision of the state on property owned by the

1-14     state, a unit of state government, or a political subdivision of

1-15     the state; any such judgment lien or abstract of judgment is void

1-16     and unenforceable.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 833 was passed by the House on April

         3, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 833 was passed by the Senate on May

         8, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor